Category Archives: Health

• Sitting quietly, doing something 27 July 2009 | Daniel Goleman no comments

  I recently spent an evening with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama who has been dubbed "the happiest man in the world." ...

• Eating too much red meat may shorten life 24 March 2009 | Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer's, stomach ulcers and other conditions. no comments

  Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer's, stomach ulcers and other conditions. ...

• Lots of TV and Web harms kids’ health 2 December 2008 | Will Dunham no comments

  Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking. ...

• World AIDS Day highlights big challenges 20 years on 1 December 2008 no comments

  As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, the fight against the disease remains stymied by the of adequate treatment in poor countries and setbacks in finding an effective vaccine, ...

• Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain; studies show why Buddhism works 22 June 2007 | University of California - Los Angeles no comments

  For the first time since the Buddha's teachings, we have shown there is actually a neurological reason for doing mindfulness meditation. ...